Submission Question:
 

How do you submit your expensive cards for grading?

Do you just put them in a box and send them off to the grading company? Don't you lose sleep over it? :eek:

Do you prefer to give them to a dealer to submit for you?

Do you give them to PSA at the show to take back with them?

Do you just take them with you to the National so they can be graded onsite?

Do you take them with you to California and get them graded there?

And the other question is this: have you ever had any bad experiences with your submission?

Did any of your cards get damaged?

Did the grading company refuse to give you the amount you insured it at?

Did your cards go missing?

Thanks for your reply

I pack/ protect them very well in a box. I insure appropriately. I mail USPS priority. Nope to everything else.

Depends on your definition of " expensive". You can really rack up serious costs when sending thru the mail ( insurance, postage ) etc. I personally like to deliver the cards in person. I have found that I can almost cover the cost of a plane ticket/ travel cost with the money I would have had to pay to send the cards thru USPS. Maybe this is an advanced form of rationalization to justify me hitting a couple of the larger national shows. It works for me. Just my 2 cents.

You have similar/same concerns as me. :D

I believe all cards must be in card savers, and maybe specific ones?

Personally, as I have debated this over with myself numerous times, I think the best option(s) are to take them to a show, which illuminates one step of the mailing worries. Just have to worry about getting them back instead of both ways.

I, as I have stated numerous time, would like to take a vacation and have my cards graded while there as that way they eliminate the mailing worries. I was just looking at Boca Raton (SGC location) to see what is all available while there?

Many CDN's on here have sent cards/memorabilia in for grading without an issue but occasionally, even from some Americans, things happen and likely being more paranoid than necessary, that is what concerns me with the cards I want to send it. (Mantle, Mays, Robinson and some High numbers as well)

How do you submit your expensive cards for grading?

The few I have done I used USPS overnight. I asked the ladies behind the counter, at our very, very busy main post office, if they had ever heard of an overnight package getting lost? They all said no. Some had been damaged but they had never heard of one lost. The safest shipping way would probably be USPS registered mail. Since I have only used those methods I have never worried. To each their own.
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Good question.
 

I have a lot greater concern about PSA (have't used the other tpg's in a while) than any mail carrier. Different levels of insurance and comfort:

1) priority insured
2) overnight insured
3) registered insured (takes the longest, but is most "secure")

I usually send priority insured unless need more than 5k insurance, then need to go registered.

I have had 1 issue in the past with PSA damaging something I sent in - 1964 Bazooka stamp sheet and ironically issues with 2 things I just got back - ungraded (that's a whole other story!) - I can't prove it, but 1 I am 100% certain PSA damaged by allowing a tiny spec of something to get into the card saver when they put the card back in it - leaving a tiny indentation in the card. The second I am almost certain I sent in crease free and it came back with a pretty bad crease - I have no "before scans" to prove either, nor would collecting on insured value help me replace either of the cards as they are both incredibly scarce.

Asked similar question while ago. Lets say I want to get all my PSA stuff in the newest holders (re-holder service). Could be a good move considering the "new" label stuff probably sells for little more than old holder stuff, all other things equal.

So if i drain out the safe deposit box to the tune of $100.k worth of cards (maybe 30-40 total cards) Y'all suggest USPS Registered? Adding insurance for $100.k would be wayyyyy too expensive. The PSA return cost would be sizeable I am sure. But would this be the best way to go about it - Registered USPS, and then sleep comfy?

The Hope Diamond was reportedly shipped Registered Mail.

Not certain of the current limit, but I believe Registered has an insurance limit of $25K, so you might want to break up the shipment, but I doubt there is going to be a problem, unless something catastrophic happenings enroute.

Unless it's some cards worth crazy money, just ship them USPS insured. I've never had a problem with that.

I was, and the package went to the national postal museum.

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collecti...e-diamond.html

145.29 in postage. Most of that the insurance on a million dollar value.

Scan both sides of card, with and without order number, overnight and insure via USPS... less hands touching it the better except for registered mail where each person that touches it signs for it..

Did have first problem with PSA bending up a corner on two 52 Topps commons I had graded...Both 4.5's... CSR I can send back when I submit again...

I never knew that. That is a fun fact for sure. I have been told Registered is the way jewelers ship diamonds and precious stones.

Back in the day PSA required registered mail both ways.

I've submitted a card one time to get graded and it was damaged in the holder. Definitely left a bad taste in my mouth but it was a very thin card, almost a paper so I think I'll give it another try in the future.

Well packed into a box - 1st class with tracking - Have never had an issue over 30+ years